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I was just discussing this with my wife, who is native Japanese. Apart from the fact that these type of things (people giving themselves titles, especially incorrect titles) drives her to despair We'd both come to the same conclusion on chichi, although it is also a slang word for nipple, hence my first post on him i.e. he's a "t!t". I also came to the conclusion that he was using Oushi as a name rather than a title, perhaps due to his size he is referring to himself as "bull", hence the title father bull. I don't really know, I don't really care, although I did uncharacteristically waste some time digging into it . The only consolation was the laughter it gave me .

rgds

Bryan

A difficult problem is easily solved by asking yourself the question, "Just how would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

I had a good look at the website of the gentleman currently being discussed, and I wonder how you can get a dan grade (Japanese term) in Tai-Chi-Chuan (a Chinese style). Please enlighten me on this subject?

I am not a mean man at heart, so I have no wish to mock this person (indeed, it would go against my Christian beliefs and the loving spirit of aikido), but I can't help but picture in my mind this guy, as a stuntman on Knight Rider (see the website) getting beaten up by David Haselhoff - I would be rolling on the floor in hysterics if I wasn't weeping.

There was a bit on a Japanese comedy show a few years back where a young woman with ample bosum would go up to guys in a park and ask, "Would you massage my chichi?" They`d say yes and she`d leave, bringing back an old man. They then would have to massage her "father."

The site above is a good example of the certificate madness that originates in some of these organizations. The amount of paper generated between dad and son would just about build a house. It's interesting to note that the son created the jiu jitsu alliance which recognizes the dad and awards him a bunch of his certificates. I guess they want to keep it in the family. Then there's the master's degree in reality defense awareness or something like that.

Now to be perfectly honest, some of the videos weren't half bad-decent breaking stuff. Although the take downs could use less of the bouncing-looks like bing bing richochet rabbit. I don't know if they were trying to imitate Ali or what. I did find it funny in the one take down demonstrated the uke (master) told the attacker when to kick.

I redid the lineage chart on my site more along organizational lines to see if that works better. It seems to make more sense and shows the two major branches I studied under and the spin offs in the Ki Society branch.

Check this out. Over on Ebay you can get a VIDEO SERIES in Combat Aikijujutsu that comes with a black belt certificate

Bronson

"A pacifist is not really a pacifist if he is unable to make a choice between violence and non-violence. A true pacifist is able to kill or maim in the blink of an eye, but at the moment of impending destruction of the enemy he chooses non-violence."

Hopefully, this thread has raised the issue enough that we won't see mail order aikido shodans. You still have to wait until you are 10th degree sokes for that . What is scary is they probaby think they are qualified to teach once they complete the mail order course.

Although I would rather not have a list of "Fraudulent Aikido Organizations" or "Fraudulent Aikido Instructors," I think having a document there (like the one John is trying to write up) that may help people choose a respectable aikido dojo would be a nice addition there.

Also, it looks like we've started naming specific individuals and organizations in this thread. Too bad, I think, as this thread has seemingly drifted from talking about the ideas to talking about specific instances...

One thing I'm noticing with some of the sites I am documenting is that some of the people developing their own styles of aikido have an aiki-jitsu or hapkido background. Just for the record, even though the kanji for hapkido is apparently the same, it does not qualify you to make up a style of aikido. Geez. These people are pathetic. I didn't mean to revive this but I was just surfing some of my "potential" fraud list and run across one of these. The guy goes from master status in Hapkido and now suddenly he's a grandmaster 10th dan in aikido. I guess it sells better.

I was just browsing a bit more on the word oushi, I found Chichi Oushi Sandlin's website. A very intersting number of photographs. I'm not sure which one I like best, the lilac dogi or the camouflage dogi?

The only reason I've come back into this is I just did a search for him on e-budo, found this. The tears of mirth are still flowing and my tummy hurts from laughing so much (I swear that is one of the Hanson brothers )

When I was a lad, I studied ketsugo, "Har Bro Dojo Ketsugo School of Self Defense. As far as I know this is the only other time in my life I have seen the word. It is an amalgamation of, oh, I don't know. When I was a kid I thought it was the best. I especially liked "O'Sensei" Harold Brosius's use of hypnosis to cause people to be stiff as a board between two chairs, or breaking a board on his head before delighted audiences.

I am grateful to "O'Sensei" Brosius for introducing me to the "arts" some 30+ years ago. But I have had a bad taste in my mouth the rest of my life for our propensity in America for all things in "tastes" and "bits." I think that is what led me to a humble center in Chicago, walking by one day, peering in, to see a severe, and laughing Japanese instructor - Toyoda Sensei, and I knew tradition, and home, was here.